We used to teach young boys to play in a masculine way
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They dont want people who can fix and make their own shit. Thats now how consoomerism works.
My inlaws will just throw their shit away (appliances) when something breaks, Ive been taking shit apart since I was five years old lmao, so I know my way around a toolbox. I dont throw shit out unless its more expensive to fix it than what its worth.
This is also an appalachian quality. We dont like to toss away things we think we can use in the future. This is why youll see the odd, usually older people with mental decline with the giant junk/trash yards in appalachia.
This reminds me a bit of a thread in r/conspiracy about how black familys are being torn apart. Its not just black family's, all familys white black yellow green, are being torn apart and relying less and less on each other. I dont know what our leaders have planned for the human race, but it cant be good.
I mean most stuff are now built to trash, not to be repaired. To buy repairable stuff you need to pay extra.
I have a $50 watch with an automatic movement. Even though it was designed during a time when you would have a watch serviced annually and repaired if needed, it would cost far more to perform even routine maintenance then to just let it run until it fails and then buy a new one.
Labor costs have increased to the point that things like tailored suits are now only for the rich, when they used to be commonplace. Do appliance repair stores even exist anymore? It's a perfect storm of things made as cheaply as possible and engineered to fail as soon as they're out of warranty and the end of those skill sets they used to maintain durable consumer goods.
I've heard of people buying shitty sub $1000 beater cars and then performing only the cheapest and most rudimentary maintenance on them like oil changes, and when they break down they just buy a new one.
Upvote for being more succinct than me.
BLM literally had dismantling the nuclear family unit as their #1 agenda item on their website. At least until it went viral. Now why would they put that as top priority when rampant single motherhood probably one of the main reasons black people are down?
What's the point of "Buying Large Mansions" if you don't have a loving husband and some niglet rugrats to share it with?
The State (ie male taxpayer) is their Husband now.
Unfortunately it's a Boomer mentality that really doesn't work anymore thanks to inflation (and chinese manufacturing) causing the degradation of parts.
It is simply not worth my time and effort to repair something that is so cheaply made that it will break after I fix it, and there's no way to properly fix it right without a massive investment in time.
I have a sewing machine from 1900. It's made of cast iron. It will never die and I will keep it forever.
I have a sewing machine from 1970. It's bit shitty, but it always seems to run. it's possible that I could repair it, or get someone else to.
I have a sewing machine from 2010. It's broken. It probably broke a couple months after I bought it. It's a pile a shit and isn't worth repairing.
If you want to actually buy something worth repairing, you have to actually buy significantly more expensive stuff, or you'll find yourself being a hoarder of utter garbage. "I might one day use part of this fucking piece of shit that never worked right in the first place!' No you won't.
The "middleground" I've found is you buy something that was "pretty good" from the 1990's - 2000's, and then keep repairing it with aftermarket parts that are freely available that and may not be reliable, but is affordable enough that if it breaks it's not a big deal to repair.
Case in point, I am using the same Logitech 9x mouse from 2008. The one weakness of the mouse is that the front part gets frayed/bent and the mouse stops working.
Instead of buying a new mouse, I just go on eBay and look for a replacementcable for it. The replacement is about $10. The cable also does not requiring soldering, you just "plug" it in on the mouse's circuit board.
If it breaks, I go on eBay again and buy another replacement, because for some reason this part is continuously being remanufactured by random Chinese shitshops, so even if it breaks, the replacement is a fraction of the cost of the original, and it still serves me well.
We no longer have that middleground anymore. There was a time where cell phones were fixable by the average person but they make them such a PITA to open up now.
The right to tinker should be constitutionally enshrined.
Somewhat related.
When I look for toys for my kids I keep seeing cooking toys advertised for boys and stuff like small boxing sets for little girls.
In fairness, our boys aren't self-sufficient, and our girls are extremely fragile.
We're kind of at the worst possible situation. Both genders need to learn masculine and feminine ways of doing things because they don't know anything at all, nor do they know what the other gender wants/needs.
This is the result of decades of going "Just be yourself!" and not having a response when the child goes, "Okay, but what am I?"
Not really, it is not uncommon to see girls trying to start fights with guys only to have the boy just stand there not knowing what to do. We need to teach guys that hitting girls that act like that is ok.
That's not fragility though. Women picking fights for men is a feature, not a bug.
Well the girls are fragile in mentality. They start a fight with a guy, the guy fights back, they bitch and cry and whine like the world owes them something.
You are acting like it’s done in good faith and not pushed by some perverted gender inversion ideology. Also, girls shouldn’t be encouraged to "hang with" the boys, because neither will they be able to keep up past a certain point, nor will some of the weaker boys be allowed to get even with the girls past puberty. It’s a shitty situation for both genders.
Make those cooking toys for boys a toy grill and then we're headed in the right direction. And include a toy maintenance kit as well.
Or give them a five star restaurant playset, since the best chefs are men.
Although even back then they still had an inexplicable black brother somehow.
The kid is asking his father if he and his friends can use the father's tools.
I know it's hard to believe, but adult men used to be able to associate with neighborhood children in a masculine mentor capacity.
Still happens to some extent.
I was the father in the commercial and “father” so to speak, of the black child(Kaysen). I used to be a mercenary fighting in Zanzibar land. I met his parents, they were harboring guerrilla fighters in their home and became hostile when I found out. I was young then and couldn’t bring myself to kill him too. So I took him and raised him as my own blood to soothe my guilty conscience. We may have seemed like happy father and son but every time I looked at him I saw his parents eyes staring at me.
Ok, Frank.
Gotta have a based black friend lol
I think that was just his friend.
Black kid was hanging with the white kids,so not a real brother but maybe a "brotha" in arms lol. This also implies the black kid actually had a good upbringing, which is not as realistic as it is irl of course, but there are a minority of those well adjusted black families back then.
You know, this kinda shit happened where usually a suburban neighborhood would be mostly white, but you do get one or two non-whites, and most of the time they didn't bother you and you didn't bother them, and sometimes your kids became friends with them because of masculinity, not because of some faggotry like diversity.
Society no longer treats boys/ men as such, they're are now treated as defective women.
And women are now simultaneously treated as girlbosses and whores.
from a simpler time when toys were marketed based on their target audience. before identifying traits of your target audience and playing to them was considered sexist or something.
well, companies used to cater products to the demographics who bought them, rather than trying to force the demographic accept what they wanted to sell...
(had to, sorry)
HOOOLY SHIT I forgot that existed for several decades.
The jingle just randomly popped back into my head a couple of days ago. I thought it could be a little relevant to this place, hence the title.
I even had a set of these. Lost most of them when moving, though.
And yes, they were real metal.
I feel like at that point you could just buy a set of tiny tools. It's not like they don't make 8mm wratchets.
My folks got me a wooden play toolset when I was a toddler. Most of the tools are missing as well as the box it came in, but my ma still keeps the remaining pieces around.
We've adopted the eastern attitude towards physical labor. Doesnt matter how many degrees or certifications you have, If you work with your hands your treated like a barely sentient primate by someone who pilots a desk all day in an office building.
...yeah. my sister tried that with her kid. A boy born with microplastics in his brain I swear and with absolutely zero sense of awareness or logical problem solving skills. She had to take his tools away. It was like giving a chimp a set of kitchen knives and expecting it to learn to cook. I'm not so sure modern kids can be trusted with this shit anymore unfortunately. Something aint right in their heads.
Well, I have a nephew that's 6 y/o and we do ALL of the guy stuff. He's learning karate so I let him "whoop" my ass. We play basketball, catch, vidya, fooseball, etc.
If he can't figure out something we don't hold his hand. We give him time to figure it out. We let him get frustrated, we give him clues. If he still can't figure it out, we show him the solution, make him pay attention and then "undo" the solution and have him repeat.
We yell at his ass if he acts up, and we teach him right from wrong.
A million dollars I bet a lot of modern leftist parents refuse to raise their boys like boys and try to raise both their girls AND their boys like girls.